Patient Experience: Beyond Patient Sat
Delivering a top quality patient experience is “a mountain without a top.” Is it time…
War and Peas
It is difficult to enforce in others what you yourself don’t possess. My husband and…
Death by Regulation: Enough is Enough
It gets a little tiring, and certainly frustrating, to be on the receiving end of…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
A patient is suffering from two life threatening events. Treatment for one condition may exacerbate…
Serotonin Syndrome and the Libby Zion Affair
For a generation of American physicians, the tragic and infamous case of Libby Zion evokes…
EMS-Delivered Airways, Part II
Many EMS providers use devices like the King Laryngeal Tube or Sheridan Combitube as primary…
A Review of ACEP’s 2011 Council Resolutions
Each year at the annual Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians over…
The Life Cycle of a Parasitic Specialist
WARNING: If you are a radiologist, married to a radiologist, related to a radiologist, or…
Talking Heads Miss the Point
A Samuel Beckett play is somewhat like a confession without hope of absolution. A sense…
Teambuilding 101: Just Say No to Jerks
Building a team is one of the most important components of a medical director’s job,…